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Whisky-dave wrote:


the 12mp 8x10 camera has 75 micron pixels. those are *huge*. its base
iso is 2100, versus a base iso of 100-200 on a typical slr.

Doesn't mean much though does it.

it means quite a bit.

It;s lioke saying a 2 1/1 square neg will collect more dust than a 35mm slide.

sort of, but you're ignoring that it also captures *significantly* more
light.



So a bigger sensor means less noise for the same sensor type.

yes.